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You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Benjamin Carson

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Danger Faces Fear
And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Care Correctness Crazy Government
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agreement Students Stupid
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Daughter Government Lying
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Crazy Thinking
I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Accomplishment People Reading
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Issues People Thinking
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Gifts Goal Happen Keys Leadership Thinking
Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Interesting Lot Mathematician Require Scientist
Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doing Excuse Hinder Hook Mind
Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Real School Thinking
We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
BENJAMIN CARSON

Dog Rabbit Today
We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Future Oblivion Planning Plans
I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cities Patient Strong
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important Our Success World

You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

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You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

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